Returning to Principle.

Once upon a time there arose
a mighty nation of free men of high principle.
They based their nation upon the natural rights of all men, endowed by
God Himself, and they designed a form of government that would enshrine those
God given rights in secular law, so that no man and no organization, including
their own government, could ever take them away.

They became great among
nations, and they became a safe harbor and a refuge for aliens from all other
lands, yearning for levels of freedom, opportunity and individual liberty that
could not be found elsewhere. They
became mighty in war, merciful in victory and charitable to the needy. They became the protectors of the innocent and
a great threat to those seeking conquest.
They became incredibly wealthy by all world standards, and their wealth
came from the individual citizen’s initiative, zeal and concerted, concentrated
efforts to prosper, for their high principles, and their very form of
government encouraged them to prosper by their own diligence.

They couldn’t possibly be
beaten by anyone on the open battlefield.
But it came to pass that they lost a war, not on the battlefield, where
not one single battle was ever lost, but in the minds of the populace, because
of the advance falsehood within their culture.
The people were told, by speakers they trusted, that the war was lost,
and they believed the lie. In their
minds, the lie became truth to them. And
so the great nation lost a very costly war, and the loss was due not to battle,
but to politics, and to the advance of the political lie.

That was a turning
point. Falsehood had been advancing
slowly within the nation for many decades, beginning with the evolutionary metamorphosis
of Progressivism, which was a new
strain of Marxism. It differed from
Revolutionary Communism in that it was a slow, seductive, mesmerizing infection
that led to the same end, although much more slowly and gradually. Progressivism depends entirely upon the lie
for its very life, and for its own advancement toward the eventual goal of
total Marxist domination. Progressive
lies were slowly eating away the nation’s Principles, and changing its very nature.

But the people didn’t
know. The cultural disease of the lie
then metastasized, and quickly spread throughout the whole of the culture. The people were ever increasingly educated
and propagandized into falsehood and error.

That was then; this is now;
here we are. Lies are taught in our
schools. Lies are daily reported as
“News.” History books and educational
text books are written, and re-written, in lies. Gigantic lies abound, and are not recognized
as lies. The nation now has a President
who was elected based on lies.
Twice. The people still don’t
really know who he is, but they elected him.
Twice. Based on lies. And he is taking the slow Communist Progressivism that put him in office up
several levels, approaching the level of the older historical nature of bloody
Communist Revolution. There is nothing
slow and methodical about his approach.
His particular brand of Marxism is much more akin to that of a Lenin than
to that of a Wilson or an FDR.

This is another tipping
point, in two ways, possibly three. The
second election proved that the majority of the voting public is oblivious to
or largely unaware of the impossibly large financial crisis before them, brought
on by purposefully destructive spending, borrowing and printing of currency by
a President incapable of doing so much as creating a simple annual budget.

It also proved that a
significant fraction, if not yet a clear majority, of voters have lost their
sense of individualindependence. They have now become the dependents of government, dependent upon government programs for
their day to day sustenance, and they will therefore always vote for
representatives who promise more government programs.

The third possibly tipping
point involves the indeterminate number and placement of high ranking military,
intelligence and law officials who have been or may be compromised
significantly enough to take them out of the picture. And, it involves the indeterminate question
of where and how many fundamentally Marxist and/or Moslem, allied-with-the-President
Agent Provocateurs have been
infiltrated and inserted into key positions in Defense, Intelligence and
Investigative agencies, ready to assume new roles quickly.

The ground has been prepared
for radical revolution. On the Liberty side of the
populace there has been a giant, rude awakening to the threat, but not in
sufficient numbers to win the last election; or possibly not in sufficient
numbers to overcome the growing purposeful election fraud always perpetrated by
the other side. Many patriots are ready
to secede from the nation and become a nation unto themselves (an absolute
impossibility) or resist to the level of violence, which is precisely what the
sitting government would prefer. That is
what they want. In fact, they are prepared
(or will prepare) to send their own side into the streets, just to get things
going.

Radical revolutionary
takeover of any government requires severe crises involving danger to life and
property. Revolutionaries need a
situation of social break-down and violent disorder to crush on an emergency
basis, suspending (permanently) any Constitutional constraints and any normal
government operations, in order to restore order and then ascend a new
throne. That is Marxism’s true final
step. That is the ultimate, unpublicized
goal of all variants, forms and sub-species of Marxism, the falsely idealized
image of eventual utopia and social perfection notwithstanding.

We see the death of a mighty
nation coming about, not due to the superior warriors standing outside the
gates, but due to the spread of the treacherous worm of falsehood, growing,
reproducing and eating away inside the national organism. The mighty nation that arose among nations
beginning in 1776 is sick, perhaps unto death, with an infestation of parasitic
treacherous lies.

Look to the articles linked
in the top list in the right hand column of this page. There you will see articulated the details of
the deceit, treachery and treason that brought us to this terrible decisive
point in our national history.

What are we to do? First and foremost, before we do anything
else. We must return to Truth, which is to say, we must turn our faces back
toward God. We are not going anywhere
worth going without Him. In point of
fact, our national decline, and the rise of atheistic Marxism in our land, was
brought about by vast numbers of us turning our faces away from Him, in favor
of lies and falsehoods. We must break
the hold of falsehood and return to Truth.
To that end, let me quote here a timely and appropriate devotion from an
email we received from Fr. Frank Pavone of www.PriestsForLife.org.

A Post-Election
Devotion

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

Scripture:

From Lamentations 3

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I will call to mind
As my reason to have hope:
22 The favors of the Lord are not exhausted,
his mercies are not spent.
23 They are renewed each morning;
So great is his faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the saving help of the LORD.

Reflection:

In the 6th century before Christ, the Babylonians invaded and devastated the
Holy City Jerusalem and the temple of the Lord. Jeremiah the prophet had
foretold that this would happen, because of the sins of the people. The Book of
Lamentations contains some of the most exquisite expressions of human grief, as
the writer behold the destruction God allowed his people to experience.

But they were still his people, and his covenant was still valid. Hence the
expression of hope stated above. And it is also a prophecy. God's mercies are
renewed "each morning," for "Early in the morning, on the first
day of the week, while it was still dark," the women went to the tomb and
found it empty! (cf. John 20:1).

Prayer:

Father of faithful mercies,
God of the Covenant and Lord of all hope,
Come, and save us!

Save us from the darkness that envelops us,
The shadow of death and falsehood across this land.

Enable us, O Lord, like your remnant from of old,
To grieve, but to grieve with hope;
To lament because of the darkness,
Yet to look forward with firm conviction to the light.

Lord, we again profess our faith
That your favors to your People are not exhausted
Your mercies to America
are not spent.
They are indeed renewed each morning,
As we declare the mighty Resurrection of Jesus Christ your Son.

In him, all darkness gives way to light
All sin gives way to grace,
All falsehood gives way to truth,
And death itself is swallowed up in victory.

To him our hearts bow once again in humble adoration,
And before him all the kings of the earth must kneel,
All the powers of the earth must acknowledge his kingdom.

Hasten, O Lord, the full coming of your Kingdom,
A kingdom of truth and life,
A kingdom of holiness and grace,
A kingdom of justice, love, and peace.

Fill us today with that peace,
Which the world cannot give,
And which no setback or election can ever take away.

In the strength of that peace,
Grant that we may redouble our efforts
To announce and prepare for your Kingdom,
To defend the values and principles on which our nation was founded,
To build the culture of life,
And to invite all people to life eternal.

We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.

This devotion is also posted
on Fr. Frank’s blog at www.FrFranksBlog.com. It gave me a great deal of comfort and
renewal of dedication; perhaps it will be of help to you too. However long it takes, whatever we must go
through, God will see us through it.
Believe that, and turn to Him in prayer.

We need to break the
stranglehold of the lies that engulf us as a people. That means re-educating ourselves in simple,
basic reality, and in the proper application of critical
thinking. We need to
recognize that all the lies, falsehoods and misconceptions that involve
government action – be it law, regulation, taxation or whatever – are either
invented by or commandeered by Marxism, and used to Marxist advantage in
harming the private sector, private business, private property, private liberty
and the expansion of human life. Marxism
seeks to collectivize everything; to collectivize all property, all industry
and all people. That is to say, to
replace individual liberty with tyranny.

Let us begin by recognizing
that a lie is a lie.

Any time you hear terms such
as

Social Justice

Environmental Justice

Racial Justice

Sustainable Development

Fair Share

Equitable Distribution

Our Precious Resources

Global Warming

Carbon Credits

Carbon Vouchers

Renewable Energy

etc.

your antennae should go up,
your radar should switch on and your concern light should begin to blink. You will be listening to a treacherous liar
trying to lure you into believing falsehood.
All of these things, and many more, are untrue, are aimed at restricting
individual or corporate liberty, regulating and restricting private business
and private personal activity, growing the government, taxing more, spending
treasure, fooling the citizenry and winning votes through trickery.

Recycling is not going to save the planet or do
anything at all positive for the planet.
Not recycling is not going to do one iota of harm to the
planet. Recycling is silly, unproductive,
unprofitable and wasteful nonsense.

Production and use of plastic is not going to do
any harm to the planet in any way, and somehow getting rid of plastic is
not going to save or help the planet in any way whatsoever. Plastic is a straw villain.

Restricting Styrofoam and Freon has had and can
have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the ozone holes. All it has done is to decrease
insulation and make auto, house and industrial air conditioners larger, heavier,
less efficient and consume more energy per unit of output, with no
discernable benefit whatsoever. The
ozone holes are going to do whatever the ozone holes are going to do, and
there is nothing man can do about it.
It’s a hoax.

Factory modifications and smoke-stack scrubbers
have had and can have absolutely no effect whatsoever on acid rain or on
ozone pollution anywhere beyond an eighth of a mile from the source. All they have ever done is increase cost
and regulation of private business, increasing the cost of goods and
services and decrease the pay of workers.
Forest damage blamed on acid rain
was caused by other things such as gypsy moth infestations. It’s a hoax.

The globe is not warming; it is cooling. No matter what you’ve been taught in
school, man cannot legislate the weather, let alone the climate. The very idea is just plain stupid.

Carbon Taxes, Penalties, Credits and Vouchers
are an open fraud, aimed at growing government bureaucracy, ripping off
private business and enriching scam artists like Al Gore. It will do nothing more than raise
electric and gas prices to the point that people will not be able to heat
their homes.

Sustainable Development is nothing but a United
Nations program to reinvigorate the old Nazi racial eugenics program first
invented by the infamous Margaret Sanger, who gave birth to Planned
Parenthood, and push eugenics – governmental human control – on the whole
world.

The world is not running out of coal, or oil, or
natural gas; quite the opposite.
Proven reserves go up every year, never down. That has been the case throughout all of
history, and that is the case today.

Wind, solar and “renewable” energy is just not
ready for serious production that can compete in any way with fossil
fuels. It is extremely costly to
manufacture, costly and difficult to transport, costly and difficult to
erect, costly and difficult to maintain, and it is inefficient and
unreliable to the point of being dangerous. Anyone who tries to depend on solar and
wind alone is destined to freeze to death, and suffer long, long
blackouts. The wind doesn’t always
blow; the sun doesn’t always shine; batteries are not efficient enough to
make up the difference. That’s just
the way it is. Every renewable
energy production system “stimulated” by this government is either cruising
toward bankruptcy, struggling but failing to recover after bankruptcy, or
out of business entirely. Large
scale renewable energy production is an absolute abysmal failure.

I could go on. All of these projects are, besides being
hoaxes and frauds, major distractions from what the proper business of
government is, which is limited and enumerated in Article 1 Section 8 of the
Constitution. They’ve got us wasting our
tax dollars and our attention on things that shouldn’t even be being done,
while the nation and the economy and the important things, like the military,
are purposely being decimated. That
which the Constitution provides for is ignored by the voters, while that which
is completely unconstitutional is concentrated upon.

It’s a Marxist shell
game.

How is the nation to ever
recover? It won’t be easy, and it may be
too late. First, we will address some of
the physical things that must be done, and then we will address the political
changes that need to happen first, to enable recovery to Constitutional
Principles. I’m not sure you’re ready
for this, but here it is.

First, we need to recognize
the fact that the federal government is neither qualified nor Constitutionally
authorized to

Practice medicine

Practice insurance

Practice massive charity or welfare

Practice formal education

Control the weather or the climate

Control the environment

Practice agriculture

Practice food or drug production or control or
distribution

Practice real estate, rent control or subsidy

Practice private or large scale banking or
finance

Practice any kind of energy production or energy
control

Involve itself in a host of other activities
similar to these.

If it isn’t in Article 1
Section 8 the federal government should not be doing it. Over many, many decades Congress has illegally
and unconstitutionally delegated its exclusive legislative authority to
unelected bureaucrats who arbitrarily pass unrepresentative regulations with
full force of law, to accomplish unconstitutional goals. Each bureaucracy always seeks to grow
itself.

Every such bureaucracy must
be shut down permanently. As all the
bureaucrats are taken off the national payroll, all of that bureaus’
regulations are taken off the books and made nul and void. If Congress feels that some existing
regulation is indeed needed and necessary, they are free to correctly and
constitutionally legislate a new law in the full light of day to accomplish the
same thing, so long as the subject of the new law comes under one of the items
listed in Article 1 Section 8. And if it
does not, then Congress is free to initiate a Constitutional Amendment effort
to make it constitutional. Otherwise,
the bureau is gone, and all of its unconstitutional regulations and regulators
with it.

What might soften the blow
to those who have become dependent upon government hand-outs for survival would
be the monthly pre-bate payment to all registered voters if Congress were to Fast Track the Fair Tax and get the Fair Tax up and running quickly, before the
needed Constitutional Amendment to repeal Amendment XVI and render the income
tax illegal. The monthly pre-bate
payments alone would exceed the state mandated monthly pay of all Cuban
workers.

What might soften the blow
of citizens now having to foot the tuition bill for educating children once the
Department of Education is shut down might be to take the money annually budgeted
for that closed-down bureaucracy and add it to the monthly pre-bate payments to
the citizenry. States would no longer
receive federal funds for education – and, states would no longer be directed
by the feds on how to educate (propagandize?) children in order to keep getting
those funds – and citizens would no longer pay taxes to the fed from which
funds would be sent back to the states anyway.
The (income tax) money stays in the pockets of the citizenry in the
first place.

The Fair Tax alone would immediately remove the most
onerous government intrusions into private behavior. Most restrictions on private business and
private citizen behavior come out of the 70,000 page Tax Code, which would
disappear upon passage of the Fair Tax. This would include religious speech and
public religious expression. Republican
candidates would be just as free to speak politically from Catholic pulpits as
Democrat candidates are free today to speak from black Protestant pulpits, and
the IRS wouldn’t say a word, because the IRS would no longer exist. There would be no more tax deductions for
anything, because there would be no more tax to deduct from. And there would be no more restricting rules
regarding tax deductions.

Ending programs such as
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would all take a similar track. First, by passing the Fair Tax, all of these continually growing
programs would be fully funded, at the moment.
They would no longer be in the red.
But, of course, they are continually growing, and that’s the problem. The track would be as follows:

Pick a date; any date in the future.

On that date, everyone who is already receiving
benefits will continue receiving benefits, for life.

After that date, no one else may ever begin
receiving benefits.

After that date, all who have contributed to
Social Security but not yet retired will receive either a lump sum of
their own contributions plus interest (a deficit situation for that year)
or smaller monthly repayments added to their monthly pre-bate payments, at
Congress’ option.

After that date, no one pays into Social
Security. (If the Fair Tax is operative, there will be no
Social Security tax anyway.)

There should be no “means
testing” involved. If the person retired
under the plan, he gets the full benefits of the plan for life. Means testing is just another Marxist inspired
plan by which some elitist or some elite class determines wants and needs of a
free private citizenry, a notion born of Marxist Redistributionism. If a person is retired and wants to work or
otherwise has other income, that’s his business and not that of the
government. Proponents of means testing
will use the term “Farness”, but there is nothing fair about taking the
earnings of someone and giving them to someone else.

The existing health care
problems in this country are due to two interference factors: the government
and insurance. Its hard to tell which is
worse, but the two act together to greatly complexify and radically increase
the cost and availability of good medical practice.

The biggest single problem
posed to availability of reasonably priced medical care in America is the
highly complex “Medical Code” system imposed by health care insurance companies
and by Medicare and Medicaid. There are
special codes assigned to represent every imaginable act a physician can make;
every diagnostic procedure, every examination of patient history and patient’s
family history; every detail of treatment, be it examination, diagnosis,
surgery, prescription of medicine or whatever
a doctor may do in his practice.

These “codes” are for
medical insurance billing, not for treatment. There are reams and reams of continually
changing insurance payment regulations relating to these codes that must be
followed, or payment will be delayed if not denied. These codes have nothing whatsoever to do
with proper treatment of the patient by the doctor. They are tools by which insurance companies
(or the government, in the case of Medicare) may delay, deny or reduce claim
payments to the doctors, if their imposed rules of payment are not satisfied.

The complexity of this code
system is so great that just about all doctors hire specialists to work in
their offices just to handle these codes and interact between the medical
practice and the various insurance companies and the government. These are fairly highly paid specialists, and
their pay and benefits add significantly to the cost of your health care. Again, these insurance codes, which seek to
direct medical doctors in how to do their work, are for billing purposes, and
have nothing whatsoever to do with health care.
They are designed by insurance experts, not medical doctors. Insurance companies profit partially by
denying claims.

So the doctor must include
in his staff of nurses and other specialists medical billing coders, and the biggest reason for delay of
payment, and the biggest single cost of doing business to him or her involves
coding errors and changes in the coding rules.
The doctor must not only keep up with professional advances in medicine,
but rules of submitting insurance billing.
And Medicare drives the bus in coding regulation changes. Whatever Medicare does, the whole rest of the
insurance industry immediately follows.

A Constitutional Amendment
should be proposed, or, failing that, state legislatures should legislate new
laws by which any health care insurance policy, whether issued by a private
company or by a government,

Must be owned by the insured party.

The insured party – the owner – must be the sole
beneficiary.

Whether the citizen buys the
policy, his employer buys the policy or the government provides the policy, the
insured party owns it, and is the sole beneficiary. Payments are to be made to the insured party,
not to the health care provider. This
would kill the whole system of insurance medical codes. If the insurance companies think they can get
the beneficiary to comply with some ridiculously complex coding system in order
to get paid, and stay in business, they would be free to try, in a now
increasingly competitive health insurance world.

Today’s impossibly high and ever
rising health care costs are more related to third party interference from
insurers and governments than to actual medical practice. If it were possible (and it is not) to
completely eliminate third party interference with the practice of medicine,
the cost of all health care would drop radically, and competitively, and the
practice of medicine, as a private business, would boom. A new doctor could hearken back to those
good-old-days when he could open up a practice in his own house, make house
calls and run his business very profitably.

The only way any of this is
ever going to happen is if highly principled Constitutional Conservatives come
to power again. It is too late in the
game to even think about any new political Party. At this point, if the Republican Party cannot
be taken over by strict Constitutionalists, then the nation is doomed.

And the current regime is
not going to stand around and allow us to get to another election as usual, if
they can help it. This is a regime that
is steeped in Marx, in Saul Alinsky, in Cloward-Piven, and that means it is
well trained in lies, treachery, treason and revolution. They aim to take over completely and
permanently trash the Constitution if they can.
It appears that the political purging of the upper echelons of Defense,
Intelligence and Investigation may have already begun. Purging, infiltrating and assuming critical
control positions is preparatory to actual revolutionary action. Whether it will work or not remains to be
seen.

Congressmen and Senators can
puff and bluster all they want to, but so long as Harry Reed is in control of
the Senate, no one is going to impeach anyone, and there is nothing anyone else
can do about any of it other than puff and bluster. The Senate has the sole authority to try
cases of impeachment. The Attorney
General works for the President, and he is not going to prosecute anyone in the
administration for anything. Making it
through to the next one or two elections will be mostly a matter of what they
can get away with, and how many people in high places might stand on Principle
and not be shaken, intimidate, bribed or blackmailed.

Getting back to the nation
as Constituted will require a Presidency, a House of Representatives and, most
importantly, a Senate dominated by
strict Constitutionalists. Do you see
that happening any time soon?

We must have a Senate that
is willing and able to initiate impeachment hearings against any and all
elected members of Congress and members of the Supreme Court who have violated
their oaths of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies foreign and domestic.
I don’t see that happening any
time soon.

Yet, nothing is impossible with God.

Are we to be a nation of Godly men, or ungodly men? Decide.

We are not dead yet. Old Glory still flies, although she’s looking
pretty ragged and worn. But the holes
and tatters did not come from bombardment or shrapnel; they came from the
insidious internal parasitic infestation of treason, treachery and falsehood. The worm eats away from the inside while the
attention of the host is diverted elsewhere.
It seems like such a small thing.

See clearly. Always seek and champion the Truth. Do your best.
Do what you can. Call a lie a
lie; call a liar a liar.

Speak the truth boldly, and
let the chips fall where they may.

You are, after all, an
American, and that still means something.

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Comments

You condemn the whole
Democratic Party with lofty wording. Is
this not the same political gamesmanship you accuse the other side of? Why should anyone believe these purely political
words? The ends justify the means for
you too, but you do not admit it. Every
member of the Democratic Party and every voter who votes for Democratic
candidates is not an anti-American or a revolutionary. This is a well packaged pack of political
lies.

Date: Sun Nov
18 07:24:46 2012 From: Vic Biorseth Comment:

Eli:

I have tried very hard to
not even mention political Parties here and keep it to the issues; but it’s crystal
clear on which side the two main Parties stand on the issues. The dividing line could not be more
obvious. For our side, The Ends Justify The Means does NOT
apply, and that is the problem; it may partially
be why we are losing.

Let me say this about the
Democrat Party: Every Democrat elected
official, every Democrat candidate for office, every Democrat Party operative,
and every Democrat voter is either:

An evil, deceptive anti-American radical
revolutionary, or

A naïve, convinced radical ideologue and Agent Provocateur, or

A simple Useful
Idiot being manipulated by others, or,

A person so ignorant of the issues as to be
functionally stupid, or,

A person convinced of his own utter dependence
on the Party.

All you have to do is look
at the issues. Most Democrat voters don’t
even know what the real issues are. We
now have multiple generations of educated Americans who have never even read
their own Declaration of Independence or their own Constitution. If they don’t even know what’s in them, how
can they be expected to love them, or to stand up for the Principles upon which
they were written? If they don’t even know
their own Constitution, then they don’t know their own country, because their
country was made – was constituted –
by the Constitution.

Just look at what education
is doing to us as a people. College
courses are taught, openly, boastfully,
on the politics of Machiavelli, the Hegelian Dialectic, Marxism, the tactics
and strategy of Saul Alinsky, the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and basically, how to
destroy America from within. There is
nothing hidden about it. We have
professors such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Cloward and Piven, openly
writing and speaking and teaching on how
to destroy us, from within. That is
the Democart Party today.

Graduates from these
colleges and universities will go on to teach in public schools, to become journalists,
to become lawyers and to become politicians.
Comrade Obama, peace be upon him, cut his adult teeth as an Alinskyite
Community Orgainzer. Madam Hillary wrote
her thesis on Saul Alinksy. Now, these
should be (but are not) shocking to Republican sensibilities; but they are resume enhancements for advancement in
the Democrat Party.

Go Google Saul Alinsky. He taught radical revolutionaries how to put
on suits, ties and winning smiles, and work their treachery from the
inside. To Establishment Republican
types, all of this is just another political opinion among the many in a
free-wheeling freedom-of-speech society.
But in hard, cold reality, it is high treason aimed at the destruction
of Constitutional America, and the perpetrators are traitors.

The Obamunist radical transformation
of America
is under way, and the Democrat Party is not only cooperating with it, they are orchestrating it. The upper echelons of the Party despise America as
Constituted.

If Constitutional America
dies, it will not be because of any superior system discovered, or because of
any higher ideals or any utopian dreams.
If Constitutional America dies, she will die from lack of love. She will die because there were not enough
good men of high Principle who were willing to rise and go and stand in the
breach. There were not enough good and
committed men who would rise to the occasion and go to the sound of the
guns.

If America dies,
it will be from a lack of knowledge, understanding and love of her
Constitution. It will be because of the advance of the untruth.

I agree with your article. But, that's not why I'm writing. The graphic of the flag that's at the top of the article is interesting. When I first saw it on another page I wondered how it was done. At first glance it looked to me like the dove of the Holy Spirit was being chased by the hand of evil. Thanks.

Date: Sat May 25 07:25:58 2013From: Vic BiorsethComment:

Jim:

Now that you mention it, I see that too. If you go to Bing.com/images and enter "American Battle Flags" or "Tattered American Flags" you will find it among the many images.

Regards,

Vic

Date: Mon Aug 25 2014From: Vic BiorsethComment:

Changes pursuant to changing the website URL
and name from
Thinking Catholic Strategic
Center to
Catholic American Thinker.

Pulled the trigger on the 301 MOVE IT option
June 1, 2014. Working my way through all the webpages. .

Regards,

Vic

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Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?

“ … for I have sworn upon
the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man.” wrote Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in
the year of our Lord 1800. The context
involved resistance to any form of Christianity or Deism legally imposing
itself throughout the USA. We must wonder what he might say
about our current government's forced imposition of strict secularism – i.e.,
anti-theism – throughout the USA. I submit that legally enforced secularism of society, like theocracy, like Marxism,
and like Islam, is, precisely, a form of tyranny over the mind of man.Nothing good can come from the religious cleansing of Judaeo-Christian society. Government imposed secularism is just another form of theocracy.